Antivirus “is dead,” says Brian Dye, Symantec’s senior vice president for information security. “We don’t think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way.” Antivirus products aim to prevent hackers from getting into a computer. But hackers often get in anyway these days. So Mr. Dye is leading a reinvention effort at Symantec that reflects a broader shift in the $70 billion a year cybersecurity industry. Rather than fighting to keep the bad guys out, new technologies from an array of companies assume hackers get in so aim to spot them and minimize the damage.

Without legal options it’s hard to beat unauthorized copying, Google argues. “Piracy often arises when consumer demand goes unmet by legitimate supply. As services ranging from Netflix to Spotify to iTunes have demonstrated, the best way to combat piracy is with better and more convenient legitimate services,” the company explained. “The right combination of price, convenience, and inventory will do far more to reduce piracy than enforcement can.”

Who knows, at some point in the future, we might all look back and laugh at how silly it was to need to know things like email addresses and URLs at all.

L’opérateur téléphonique Orange a reconnu, mardi 6 mai, un nouveau vol de données personnelles chez 1,3 million de clients et de prospects, trois mois après une intrusion qui avait touché près de 800 000 d’entre eux.

« Grâce au Mooc, dit-il, on peut tout automatiser ! » Et si le ciel ne le veut pas, il estime qu’ils trouveront un emploi aux Brasseries du Cameroun, à la CCC (société de savonnerie) ou chez Akwa, société chinoise de fabrication d’afficheurs matriciels, basée à Douala.